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10-03-2002, 01:41 AM

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Bear Stearns meant to place a four million dollar sell order today, but they goofed up and placed a four billion dollar sale order. The error was caught fairly quickly, and “only” $622 million of the sale actually went through:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/021002/marke..._error_15.html

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